On Books and Writers: Selected Essays

John Unrue (English, U. of Nevada, Las Vegas) collects 30 essays by the late writer, English scholar, critic, and teacher Matthew J. Bruccoli, drawn from journals, anthologies, and other publications. The essays provide an overview of his career and discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald's works, bibliography, publishing and publishers, bookmen like Charles Elliot Frazer Clark, Jr., libraries and librarians, and writers like Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, John O'Hara, and Raymond Chandler. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)